Two weeks later the mercy petition plea file of the 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru moved again, with Delhi’s Lt. Governor, Tejendra Khanna, on Thursday night sending the file along with his notings to the Union home ministry, which had sought the opinion of the city government four years ago on the merits of the plea.

Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray has been nominated to the National Integration Council (NIC) headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The Shiv Sena, which has 11 members in the Lok Sabha and four in the Rajya Sabha, made the entry into the prestigious panel for the first time.

The BJP on Friday nominated journalists Chandan Mitra and Tarun Vijay as its candidates in the Rajya Sabha biennial elections but suspense remained over the fate of yesteryears actress Hema Malini.

The Congress on Friday announced the candidature of Union minister Ambika Soni from Punjab and senior AICC general secretary Mohsina Kidwai from Chhattisgarh for the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha but there was no word yet on Union minister Anand Sharma.

Voicing concern over the prevalence of lifestyle diseases like diabetes in lower income groups, Delhi health minister Kiran Walia on Friday said the government has decided to set up special clinics in hospitals for this purpose.

A former corporator of Pune was killed on Thursday evening outside Commonwealth Games building situated in the heart of the city when preparations were being made for the official launch of Games’ ticketing event.

The Delhi high court on Friday stayed an earlier order of a single judge bench for constituting a panel of experts to ascertain health hazards from over 5,000 mobile phone towers in the city. A division bench comprising of Chief Justice of the Delhi high court Dipak Misra and Justice Madan B. Lokur stayed the May 31 order of Justice Kailash

Amidst the impasse on the issue of the power tariff order, chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday said that her government would not do anything which could harm the interests of anybody. Further, in response to the claims of the DERC that the private power distribution companies (discoms) are earning healthy profits, two discoms on Friday, while replying to the power regulator’s letters, stated that the claims are wrong.

Two unidentified armed assailants barged into a mobile shop in a south Delhi locality on Thursday evening and shot dead its 36-year-old owner.
Police officials said Harvinder Singh, the owner of the shop located near well number two in Katwaria Sarai was about to close his shop on Thursday when two unidentified assailants entered at around 11.55 pm and fired seven shots at him and escaped.

A gang of unidentified robbers carried out a daring heist on Wednesday night in south Delhi’s Saket area, barging into at least 10 houses and looting cash and jewellery worth lakhs of rupees.